Written by Kate McDonald on
28 February 2021.
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Healthcare IT News ~ Kat Jercich ~ 19/02/2021
Many 2020 fellows labeled concerns around decreased data quality from cut/paste behaviors, forced workarounds due to EHR limitations, increase in documentation and reporting requirements, and clinician cognitive load as much worse than we expected.
CBC News ~ Jacques Poitras ~ 23/02/2021
The New Brunswick government botched the rollout of an electronic medical record system for doctors, leading to $26 million of provincial and federal money being spent on a tool that fewer than half of the province s physicians adopted.
Bettina McMahon appointed Healthdirect Australia CEO Written by Kate McDonald on
26 February 2021.
Former Australian Digital Health Agency interim CEO Bettina McMahon has been named as the new CEO of health information and helpline operator Healthdirect Australia.
Ms McMahon was also chief operating officer and executive general manager for industry and government at ADHA, and also held senior positions at its predecessor, the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).
Ms McMahon said Healthdirect Australia was a trusted digital health organisation and had been selected by the federal government to support the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. Healthdirect is working with online appointment booking services to use the National Health Services Directory for the community phases of the vaccine roll-out.